Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 18

This is a list of selected June 18 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Charles Darwin
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  Alfred Russel Wallace
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  Sally Ride
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  Emperor Gaozu of the Tang dynasty
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  Charles de Gaulle
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  Cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo
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  Rus' forces under the walls of Constantinople
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  Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Father's Day in various countries (2017)	lead too short, self-contradictory
Dragon Boat Festival (Chinese calendar, 2018)	refimprove
1053 – Humphrey of Hauteville led the armies of the Normans in the Battle of Civitate against the combined forces of Pope Leo IX and the Holy Roman Empire.	unreferenced section
1264 – The Parliament of Ireland met at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.	unreferenced sections
1812 – The United States declared war against the United Kingdom, officially beginning the War of 1812.	refimprove section
1908 – The University of the Philippines, the country's national university, was established.	refimprove section
1979 – The United States and the Soviet Union signed the SALT II treaty, placing specific limits on each side's stock of nuclear weapons.	refimprove section
Andrew Forsyth |b|1858	lead too short

Eligible

• 1757 – Third Silesian War: The Austrian victory at the Battle of Kolín forced Prussian leader Frederick the Great to give up the Siege of Prague and retreat to Saxony.
• 1815 – War of the Seventh Coalition: Napoleon fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo (depicted), in present-day Belgium.
• 1940 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle gave his Appeal of 18 June speech, often considered to be the origin of the French Resistance.
• 1954 – Carlos Castillo Armas led a CIA-sponsored invasion force across the Guatemalan border, beginning the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
• 1958 – Benjamin Britten's one-act opera Noye's Fludde premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival.
• 1967 – American musician Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage at the end of a performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival in California.
• 1972 – British European Airways Flight 548 crashed near Staines-upon-Thames less than three minutes after departing from Heathrow Airport in London, killing all 118 people aboard in the worst air accident in the UK.
• 1981 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth technology, made its maiden flight.
• 1982 – The body of Italian banker Roberto Calvi, nicknamed "God's Banker" due to his close association with the Holy See, was found hanging from scaffolding beneath London's Blackfriars Bridge.
• 1983 – Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman and third one overall in space.
• 1994 – The Troubles: Ulster Volunteer Force members attacked a crowded bar in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, with assault rifles, killing six.
• 2009 – NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, its first mission to the Moon in more than ten years.
• 2012 – Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was appointed the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
• Born/died: |Rogier van der Weyden |d|1464| Ambrose Philips |d|1749| Lord Castlereagh |b|1769| William Cobbett |d|1835| James Montgomery Flagg |b|1877| Alice T. Schafer |b|1915| Barack Obama Sr. |b|1934| Isabella Rossellini |b|1952|Kofoworola Abeni Pratt |d|1992|Michael Hastings |d|2013

Notes

• Battle of Ligny/Battle of Quatre Bras appear on June 16, so Battle of Waterloo should not appear in the same year
• Monterey Pop Festival appears on June 16, so Jimi Hendrix should not appear in the same year
• Valentina Tereshkova appears on June 16, so Sally Ride should not appear in the same year
• Sultan bin Salman Al Saud appears on June 17, so Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Sultan's father) should not appear in the same year

June 18: Autistic Pride Day

Li Yuan

• 618 – Sui–Tang transition: Chinese governor Li Yuan (pictured) declared himself emperor, establishing the Tang dynasty.
• 860 – Rus' forces sailed into the Bosporus in a fleet of about 200 vessels and started pillaging the suburbs of Constantinople.
• 1858 – Charles Darwin received a manuscript by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection, which encouraged him to publish his own theory of evolution.
• 1953 – A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board.
• 1983 – Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women were hanged in Shiraz because of their membership in the Baháʼí Faith.

• William Lassell (b. 1799)
• Abdollah Mirza Qajar (d. 1846)
• Queen Olga of Greece (d. 1926)
• Gail Godwin (b. 1937)

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